Pharmaceutical company Bayer took over weed killer Roundup in its acquisition of US agrochemical company Monsanto back in 2018. However, it has since been hit with thousands of cancer-related Roundup cases. German agricultural and pharmaceutical giant Bayer has been instructed by a state court in the US state of Georgia to shell out $2.1 billion … Continue reading US court slaps Bayer, Roundup with €1.9b over cancer-causing weed killer chemicals
Photo by Helena Lopes on Pexels.com Dr. Frank Frizelle has operated on countless patients in his career as a colorectal surgeon. But there’s one case that stayed with him. In 2014, he was treating a woman in her late 20s suffering from bowel cancer—already a rare situation, given her age. But it became even more … Continue reading Why more young adults are getting cancer – research
Smoking in outdoors and public areas in Italy’s financial and fashion capital, Milan, is now banned. It’s the toughest extension of a series of bans starting in 2021, aimed at ‘improving the quality of the city’s air’. Smoking has now been banned in outdoors and public areas in Italy’s second largest city of Milan. The … Continue reading Italy enacts tougher policies to control outdoor smoking
President-elect Donald Trump expressed his condolences on the passing of former President Jimmy Carter. "Those of us who have been fortunate to have served as president understand this is a very exclusive club, and only we can relate to the enormous responsibility of leading the Greatest Nation in History," Trump wrote on Truth Social. He added that … Continue reading JIMMY CARTER’S DEATH: Tributes from Trump, JD Vance and other global leaders
Jimmy Carter was born Oct. 1, 1924, in a small local hospital in the southwest Georgia town of Plains. He was the first U.S. president born in a hospital. Carter was the first child of James Earl Carter, a World War I veteran and an industrious peanut farmer, and Lillian Carter, a nurse. He would … Continue reading About Jimmy Carter
Image shows former United States president, Jimmy Carter, in 2007. (Carolyn Kaster/AP) Jimmy Carter was arguably the most enigmatic president of America’s post-World War II era. He died on Sunday afternoon in Plains, Ga., the Carter Center said. Leaders who reach the pinnacle of power are usually complicated individuals. But Carter was a man whose outward image was often … Continue reading Former US president Jimmy Carter dead at 100
Image shows Sir Chris Hoy speaking to Sky News reporter about his experiences living with cancer Twenty years ago, Sir Chris - or just Chris Hoy as he was then - won the first of his six gold medals at the Athens Olympics. Over his glittering cycling career he won pretty much everything and did … Continue reading 6-time Olympic gold medallist shares ‘horrible battle’ with cancer
There is a lot at stake this week for Sophie Blake, a 52-year-old mother who was diagnosed with stage four cancer in May 2022. As MPs vote on whether to change the law to allow assisted dying, Sophie tells Sky News of the day her life changed. "One night I woke up and as I … Continue reading Mum diagnosed with cancer tells of the day her life changed ahead of assisted dying vote
Following the announcement of Dr Lee Wei Ling's death on Wednesday (Oct 9), former patients took to social media to express their condolences to her family and thank her for helping them. Dr Lee was a paediatric neurologist specialising in epilepsy, and also the director of the National Neuroscience Institute from 2004 to 2014. She died at home aged 69, four … Continue reading MORE THAN A DOCTOR: Former patients pour tributes, mourn death of Lee Wei Ling
Some dread the big 4-0 - but not Prince Harry. As he heads into this new decade, he's looking ahead with excitement. While that may not be surprising after the turmoil of the past few years, you have to remember that parts of his 30s were pretty good. In May 2015, when Harry was still 30, I … Continue reading Fans celebrate Prince Harry at 40 – and true success of life outside the royal fold
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